Two days of torrential rains last week exceeded the monthly norm of precipitation having destroyed some 3,000 residential houses and 5,500 of other buildings as well as having flooded 86 roads and three bridges.

Manila: August 7 -- (BNA) Thousands of Filipino populace were compelled to abandon their homes as a result of torrential rains and severe floods which hit the Capital, Manila and northern provinces in the Philippines, meanwhile hundreds others remain stranded on the rooftop of their homes at a time when muddy water level has risen.

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